JAVOR GARDEV

- director
born in Sofia, Bulgaria on 23 February 1972

EDUCATION
1998 M.A. degree in Directing ­ Academy for Theatre and Film Arts,
Sofia, Bulgaria
1997 M.A. degree in Philosophy - University of Sofia, Bulgaria
1991 - 1986 Studies at the National college for ancient languages and
cultures, Sofia, Bulgaria

ADDITIONAL TRAINING
2001 Academy for Educational Development, State Department, USA
1998 Academy Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
1996 European Directors School, Leeds, United Kingdom

DIRECTED THEATRE PRODUCTIONS
2001 “Bastard” after William Shakespeare, Friedrich Durenmatt and Adso
of Moutier-an-Der
(Produced by Varna State Theatre in the Underground Wine Cellar
‘Dimyat’, Varna  )
2000 “Nosferatu, celui du dedans” after David Le Breton
(Theatre du Plessis-les-Tours / Companie Jose Manuel Cano Lopez, Tours,
France)
2000 “Verona” by Alexey Schipenko
(National Theatre, Sofia)
1999 "Russian People's Post" by Oleg Bogayev
(Theatre of Bulgarian Army, Sofia)
1999 “Quartet” by Heiner Müller
(Theatre-laboratory “Sfumato”, Sofia)
1997 "Somnium Ulixis" after Heiner Müller, Joseph Brodsky, Georgi Tenev
and Kiril Merjansky
(Theatre-laboratory "Sfumato", Sofia)
1996 "Tanya-Tanya" by Olya Mouchina
(Little city theatre "Off the channel", Sofia)
1995 "The March" by Georgi Tenev
(State theatre - Lovech)
1995 "The Maids" by Jean Genet
(State theatres Haskovo and Dimitrovgrad - co-production)
1994 "Parts of the Night" by Georgi Tenev
(State theatre - Sliven)
1994 "Two Little Plays about the End" after F.M.Dostoievski and
L.Petrushevskaia
(State theatre - Dimitrovgrad)

ACTING IN THEATRE PRODUCTIONS
1999 The young Bataille in "Story of the eye" by Georges Bataille,
directed by Ivan Stanev
(Passages” festival, Nancy, France / "Concept for theatre" foundation,
Sofia  - co-production)
1997 Germancho in “Apocrypha” authors’ performance of Margarita
Mladenova & Ivan Dobchev
(Theatre-laboratory “Sfumato”, Sofia / “Passages” festival, Nancy,
France - co-production)

AUTHOR'S VIDEO PROJECTS
2002 “Bedspotting”
(Triumviratus Art Group & Theatre du Plessis-les-Tours, Tours, France)
1998 “Der Solitudebolero oder Raskolnikowbesessenheit”
(Akademie Schloss Solitude production, Stuttgart, Germany)

DIRECTED AUDIO PROJECTS
2001 "The Citadel" audio-project of Assen Avramov / Georgi Tenev / Javor
Gardev
(Bulgarian National Radio / Triumviratus Art Group  and Ars Digital
co-production)
1999 "The Atoll" audio-project of Javor Gardev / Assen Avramov / Georgi
Tenev
(Bulgarian National Radio / Triumviratus Art Group  and Ars Digital
co-production)
Awarded “Grand Prix - Best European Radio Drama” Berlin ’99, Germany

PERFORMANCE ART
1998 “Doppelmond oder Ihre Sprache im Koerper unserer Sprache”,
Stuttgart
literary and video performance together with the writers Georgi Tenev
and Dubravka Ugresic

AWARDS
1999 Berliner Grand Prix Europe / Best European Radio Drama Production -
"The Atoll"
1999 Best Director Award in Vratza Chamber Theatre Festival for
"Quartet"
1999 First Prize at the Blagoevgrad Annual Theatre Festival for
"Quartet"
1997 Union of Bulgarian Performing Artists Annual Award - Best
Professional Director of  1997
1997 First Prize at the Blagoevgrad Annual Theatre Festival for
"Tanya-Tanya"
1991 Bulgarian Philosophers Society Award  / National Philosophy
Students Contest
1991 National Students Literary Competition First Prize for Best Essay
 

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Since 1991 until now - publications in the fields of philosophy,
esthetics, art in the Bulgarian philosophy and humanitoies journals,
literary journals, culture weeklies.
Since 1994 - co-creator and member of TRIUMVIRATUS ART GROUP (
www.triumviratus.org ) together with Georgi Tenev (playwright) and
Nikola Toromanov (artist & designer).